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DREAM FACTORIES ON THE OUTSKIRTS A Concise History of Singapore’s Early Film Studios (1926 – 1973) [article last updated on 9 April 2018) by Toh Hun Ping Movie production in Singapore by local filmmakers first started in July 1926, when Low Poey Kim (Liu Bei-jin, 刘贝锦), a Singapore-born entrepreneur, established the Nanyang Low Poey Kim Motion Picture Co., Singapore / 南洋刘贝锦自制影片公司. He founded the company in the hope of creating, as a precedent, Chinese films with a Nanyang (literally ‘South Seas’; […]

Original film title: Samarang Re-released as Shark Woman in 1940. Directed by Ward Wing Written by Lori Bara (story) Silent Film Starring: A.V. Cockle, Theresa Seth, Mamounah Produced by B.F. Zeidman Productions Year of release: 1933 Film Locations: Coastal kampong in Singapore WHEN SAMARANG – a Hollywood-produced silent fiction movie about a Malay fishing village’s pearl divers – was first released in the theatres, it was touted and advertised as “Malaya’s first sensational thriller filmed entirely in Singapore with local […]